That night, Lin Yiyang and Meng Xiaodong stood side by side outside Yin Guo's house, and they both thought it was a mystery to be here together.
Lin Yiyang handed him a cigarette. Meng Xiaodong hadn't touched this for eight hundred years, but he was so happy today that he took it.
Yin Guo locked the door, ran out, and hugged Lin Yiyang from behind.
I am so happy that I want to fly, people are floating.
"Thank you brother," she said, not forgetting Meng Xiaodong, her great benefactor, "I specially asked Tian Tian to come back."
"I have to thank him for this every day," Meng Xiaodong pointed to Lin Yiyang, "You can hold my younger brother, you are very capable." He told his younger brother, and came back to help Lin Yiyang deal with the family.
Meng Xiaotian didn't say anything, didn't delay for a minute, packed his luggage and ran back to brainwash his grandma for a week.
Meng Xiaodong finished smoking and left.
Yin Guo watched Meng Xiaodong's car disappear before concentrating on Lin Yiyang: "My brother never smokes."
Lin Yiyang patted her on the head, so naive, little girl.
Of course your brother is wearing a mask to you.
"Take you somewhere." He beckoned to her, and led Yin Guo around the fountain in the community with ease, and walked towards the small gate from a small path behind.
Yin Guo walked slowly, blowing the night breeze, seeing him walking half a step ahead of her, watching his back, thinking, how did she get such a treasure
He simply satisfied all his presuppositions about men.
Even beyond what was ever imagined.
No one was around.
Seeing her walking slowly, he looked back and thought she had sprained her ankle.
"What are you looking at me for?" She was smiling at him in the light of the moonlight and street lamps.
He reached out and took her arm.
Slid down, found her hand, and grabbed it.
"You are very familiar with my neighborhood..."
"On your birthday, walk around." He said.
It was that night, the first time I went back to China to see her, for her birthday.
After the two met briefly in the hotel, he sent her back to the gate of the community and watched her enter the gate. Then he got out of the car alone, walked around the outer wall, and entered through the northwest door.
Lin Yiyang's previous home had no property rights, it was rented, and it belonged to a factory house. There are old buildings next to each other in the community, and there is a small half-meter-wide flower bed with no flowers, and flower pots and sundries of residents on the first floor are thrown on the dry soil.
And Yin Guo's community is very secluded and atmospheric. Half of the community is covered with towering trees and shrubs, and the roads between the buildings are very wide. That night he went around and told himself that this is where Yin Guo lived since childhood.
It is the living environment that her parents have worked hard for most of their lives to create for her.
And in the future, she can only be better if she follows her, not worse than this.
Yin Guo was unbuttoning his cuffs, helping him to roll up the cuffs: "Have you wanted to unbutton them all night?"
Lin Yiyang smiled.
In fact, it's okay, tonight is too important to pay attention to these details.
The two went out of the small gate, crossed the white stone bridge, and walked to the other side of the river.
At first, Yin Guo thought he was reluctant to leave, and wanted to go shopping. When he got outside the motorcycle shop, the boss greeted him warmly. She was not in a state yet: "Have you bought a motorcycle?"
"It's more than just buying." The boss smiled when he saw Yin Guo, "I'll show you this."
Yin Guo followed Lin Yiyang to the counter in the store.
The boss took out a small white helmet, which was extraordinarily delicate, and it looked like it was custom-made.
Yin Guo had never ridden on a man's motorcycle before in his life, and he got a helmet first, picked it up and looked left and right, he was so happy. I put it on specially, ran to the mirror on the right side of the store, looked at it back and forth for a long time, and kept asking him if it looked good.
Lin Yiyang tilted his head, motioning for her to go out with him.
Yin Guo took off his helmet, hugged it in his arms, and ran out with him. It was determined that Lin Yiyang was going to take himself for a ride.
In the middle of the night, it was almost eleven o'clock, and there were no street lights and no pedestrians on this small road.
This row of shops are all dark with lights, only this shop has light coming out, shining on the open space outside. Yin Guo looked at the dark lights outside, and wanted to say that he should go for a drive tomorrow, because it was too late today, and it would be dangerous without street lights.
And I don't want to spoil Lin Yiyang's happiness.
He suddenly raised his hand and pointed to the tree on the far side of the road.
Yin Guo looked along and saw nothing.
A taxi passed by and the lights came on, which further verified her judgment—it was empty.
Yin Guo's eyes blurred, and Lin Yiyang hooked a string of stainless steel ornaments with his fingers, dangling in front of her eyes. I was teasing her just now, but now I am serious about giving it away.
It was a bunch of red cherries, dangling in the palm of his hand, and under the light, each cherry was glowing with metallic luster.
And under the ornament is a key, a door key.
…
She recognized the key.
When renting an apartment, Wu Wei took it back from the tenant who had walked away, and helped the landlord give it to her and her cousin. Later, Yin Guo moved away and left the key to Lin Yiyang.
The moment she saw the key, she was at a loss for a few seconds, and a guess emerged in her heart. He wasn't buying the apartment on impulse, was he? No way
"When to go and when to stay." Lin Yiyang confirmed her guess.
"Did you really buy it??"
He didn't deny it: "I was in a hurry to buy it, but I didn't have enough money, so I bought it with a loan. But by the end of this year, it will almost be paid off."
Of course there was nothing left to say.
After the loan is paid off, you can pass it to her. It was meant to be given to her.
"No, no..." Yin Guo was almost incoherent, "You don't live there, isn't this a waste of money?"
Yin Guo looked at him smiling, and he pulled up his hand, and the key and the pendant were all in his palm.
What he didn't say was—
He'd had this arrangement ever since she lugged her suitcase downstairs from her New York apartment and looked at the laundry room with nostalgia, when she got in a taxi and looked at pictures of the laundry room. After graduating and developing well, the first money I saved was to buy an apartment in that building. It is best to live in the original one, and if it is not possible, it must be in the same apartment building.
Yin Guo knew that this was definitely not today, or that she bought it after returning to China.
She guessed that he has been saving money to do this since he played the first game. Sometimes she can't figure him out, her thoughts jump quickly, and she is too open-minded, so that she often speaks and acts out of common sense. .
But in terms of himself, he is a big fool, there is no need to guess.
Holding the key, Yin Guo is still trying to accept this fact: "You...you can really make money. If you want to buy a house, you have to buy here first, who will buy a non-resident first."
Lin Yiyang smiled, put his hands on her waist: "Here?"
The dark eyes drew closer: "You mean the wedding room?"
…
"Who said we're going to buy a wedding room?" He talked about the wedding room as soon as he entered the house, and the Great Leap Forward didn't do that.
"Who will buy it if I don't buy it?" He laughed, "It seems inappropriate for you to buy it?"
Yin Guo was pushed back with every sentence, and there was no room for retaliation at all, so he blurted out in a hurry: "I'm not discussing marriage..." No, why did the more I said it, the more crooked it became, "I didn't say I was going to get married. "
"If you don't get married, why do you take me home?"
…
The boss was cleaning the motorcycle inside, listening to the two talking, just like listening to a cross talk, and kept laughing there.
He chatted with Lin Yiyang a few times about motorcycles, and they hit it off right away, and he didn't know what this kid was doing. I just feel that I am a free and easy person, spend a lot of money, and look like a rich second-generation swinger, but I have a crush on my girlfriend. Especially tonight, when I saw the true appearance of this little girlfriend, and the relationship between the two of them, they looked like a student couple, or at least they came here together since their student days.
Common sense says that generally when a boyfriend buys a house, girls are most happy with him.
Everyone is an independent individual, and sending a key is also to share the space of love. But Lin Yiyang is different. Yin Guo understands him. With his personality, it is very easy for you to let him buy a car. Buying a house seems to have a special meaning, and it is of great significance. That key was "returned" to her, saving the first years of their acquaintance and giving it to her again.
So much so that she went back to the underground garage of the community with him, beside his car, and when she said goodbye to him, the two of them were in the open driver's door, one got in the car, the other got off, and they just didn't want to separate.
She squeezed a few of his fingers, shook them, and said softly, "Congratulations, Captain Lin."
Lin Yiyang smiled, and pressed the index finger of the other hand on his lips, signaling her with his eyes, come here, be more practical. Yin Guo glanced around to see that there was no one around, took half a step forward, and was immediately hugged by his waist.
Before she could take the initiative, he had already lowered his head and kissed her, first his lips, then her tongue, he kissed her for a while, and then moved to her forehead. The hot breath pressed against her forehead through her bangs.
After a while, he said with a low smile, "I really want to take you back."
I don't want to put her on it.
***
After getting out of the elevator, when she was taking out the house keys, the WeChat notification sounded suddenly.
Are you not driving? Why do you still send WeChat.
She unscrewed the door lock, quietly pushed open the heavy reddish-brown security door, and saw the message from him beside the door—
Lin: Happy 30 days.
30 days
Seeing such a precise calculation of the date, she was stunned.
First kiss and first night? It's all too far away. He returned home? That was more than two months ago.
She suddenly thought of a most suitable time point—
The day the two actually met.
She only remembered that it was about a month, and she didn't count it so carefully. He's a big man... he still pays attention to this
***
Lin Yiyang's car was parked on the small road outside the garage of the community for a while.
He opened the window and looked at the deserted road at eleven o'clock in the middle of the night.
There are street lights, but no pedestrians. There are shops, but no lights.
In other words, at this point in time, he was the only one with a car on this small road. Through the window glass of the car, he found that it had started to rain, and drops of raindrops hit the car window glass.
Lin Yiyang looked at the water marks running down the glass. Gradually, the entire front windshield was washed away by water. He turned on the wipers to wipe off the water.
Suddenly in a trance, what kind of day is this
It seems that he has been waiting for this day for more than ten years since the night he left Dongxincheng.
***
The closed training camp for the Asian Games will last for 70 days.
This is also the first time that Yin Guo has been training with players from various sports in the field of billiards. In other words, this is also the first time that she and Lin Yiyang have the opportunity to train together.
Yin Guo came with a few senior sisters from Beicheng.
Although there are only 2 places for each event, the national team players of each event will participate in training camps, and everyone will train together. After all, there are not many opportunities for the strongest active players to gather together, and it is also an opportunity to train new players.
Yin Guo changed into training clothes in the female player dormitory, tied up her long hair in front of the mirror, and wanted to send Lin Yiyang a message to ask him what he was doing, but when he thought about it, he would see him soon, so it was better to leave a little surprise.
Seeing him in the national team training camp was something she never thought about in the past.
There were many players, and everyone gathered in the small auditorium of the training camp. Except for the coaches in the first row, the players were all sitting scattered. The acquaintances were chatting together, and the newcomers who were not familiar with each other smiled shyly.
As soon as Yin Guo entered, she was pulled into the group in Beicheng by her senior sister. Meng Xiaodong and Li Qingyan were in the front row, and several boys and girls were behind. Dongxincheng is on the other side, and in the middle is for newcomers and solo players from all over the world.
It's not that I deliberately sit according to the club, it's just because people who come from one place are more familiar and easy to chat with.
…
Suddenly, someone was clapping their hands, indicating to be quiet, and it was the head coach who came.
A man in his fifties, who used to be the coach of the snooker project, Yin Guo hadn't seen much. And next to him, Lin Yiyang, who was wearing the national team's sports uniform, came in together, walking beside the head coach by a full head.
The head coach walked to the field, looked at the crowd with a smile, and said with a smile: "There are a lot of new faces, or, for many people, I am also a new face."
Everyone laughed.
"This is the first meeting of our billiards event to enter the Asian Games again after many years. I also participated in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. I am very happy to see players from all billiards events gather together for training together."
Meng Xiaodong was very familiar with this coach, so he took the lead in applauding, leading to applause from the audience.
"To make it simple, I am the head coach of this year's national billiards team, Zhou Bin." The head coach smiled and gestured to Lin Yiyang, asking the star player to introduce himself.
Lin Yiyang raised his eyes, looked at all the coaches in the first row of the small auditorium, and all the players in the row after that, everyone present was reflected in his dark pupils: "Hi everyone, I am this year's national billiards team The captain, Lin Yiyang."
No extra words, no complicated self-introduction.
His registration included all men's five events, and his resume is familiar to everyone present, so there is no need to repeat it.
In his eyes, she seemed to see the strongest opponent that Meng Xiaodong and every brother of Lin Yiyang had repeatedly described, recalled, regretted, and lost in words.
At this moment, Yin Guo suddenly had a real feeling that Lin Yiyang, who was on the field in the past, finally returned completely.